Near Miss of the Day 386: A very sweary van passenger

The star of today’s video in our Near Miss of the Day series isn’t a motorist at all – instead, he’s a rather potty-mouthed van passenger who unleashes a string of four letter words after a cyclist remonstrated about the close pass that the driver had done on him moments before.

It was filmed by road.cc John, who called out “Moron” and the van overtook him, leaving minimal space and with the cyclist also approaching a row of parked cars.

The passenger, who would have heard him through the open window, turned around and said, “You what?” with the rider replying, “Keep your distance.”

Much of the subsequent exchange is a bit muffled, but it’s easy enough to get the general drift – and John got the last laugh in the end as he sailed past the van, now stuck in heavy traffic, shortly afterwards.

"I didn’t report this to the police although I was quite tempted,” said John. “I did contact the firm whose van it was but didn’t get a very satisfactory response from them.

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Over the years road.cc has reported on literally hundreds of close passes and near misses involving badly driven vehicles from every corner of the country – so many, in fact, that we’ve decided to turn the phenomenon into a regular feature on the site. One day hopefully we will run out of close passes and near misses to report on, but until that happy day arrives, Near Miss of the Day will keep rolling on.

If you’ve caught on camera a close encounter of the uncomfortable kind with another road user that you’d like to share with the wider cycling community please send it to us at info [at] road.cc or send us a message via the road.cc Facebook page.

If the video is on YouTube, please send us a link, if not we can add any footage you supply to our YouTube channel as an unlisted video (so it won't show up on searches).

Please also let us know whether you contacted the police and if so what their reaction was, as well as the reaction of the vehicle operator if it was a bus, lorry or van with company markings etc.

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